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Teucrium trifidum, the fever woodsage, is a softly woody undershrub from southern Africa in the mint family, growing 30 to 110 cm tall. It is a hardy, drought-tolerant plant of dry woodland and disturbed ground, best grown in full sun with sharp drainage.
Teucrium trifidum, commonly called the fever woodsage, is a species of flowering plant in the family Lamiaceae. It is found in South Africa, Lesotho and Botswana.
This species is common in South Africa′s Gauteng and North West provinces, briefly crossing into Botswana and extending down into the central Free State, Lesotho, and parts of the Northern Cape. It′s also found in eastern Mpumalanga, northern KwaZulu-Natal and the Eastern Cape as far south as Humansdorp. It typically grows in dry woodland, especially in overgrazed or disturbed places.
African Woodsage · Wall germander · Small coastal germander · Shrubby germander · Mountain germander · Poley · Pyrenean Germander · Woodland germander
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Teucrium trifidum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
